PunaMusta Media is a modern business printing house whose business depends on the use of digital information systems.
PunaMusta Media is a Finnish conglomerate operating in the media, visibility, printing and digital business sectors. Among other things, the company offers digital visibility and brand management solutions, event and visibility solutions, as well as design, content production, and printing services (e.g., for magazines). The company has approximately 800 employees and is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
As a modern company, the PunaMusta Media Group needs a permanently functioning network connection. Its sales, services, and deliveries also require the network to be high quality because it has a critical role in virtually all of the company’s business activities.
Over the years, a telecoms solution that had been cobbled together from different manufacturers came to the end of its life cycle. PunaMusta decided to use Mintly’s expertise to design and implement a new generation of network architecture that would be more unified.
The best thing about our new network is that there is no more feedback from users – the network just works. When I visit different locations of our company, the experience is the same everywhere.
Atso Norppa
ICT Manager, PunaMusta Media Oyj
Main objectives for the network
Rock solid reliability
Easier manageability
Improved usability
offices, specialized publishing solutions, and forklift systems.
Mintly provided PunaMusta with the design, hardware, installation, ongoing support and maintenance services for the new architecture. Juniper was selected as the most suitable equipment supplier for PunaMusta’s needs, and the new architecture was designed and implemented for their base stations and switches.
After the project was completed, the client was asked about their feelings at the end of the project:
Our cooperation with Mintly has worked well – they are always quick to respond
Atso Norppa
PunaMusta Media Oyj
With the ongoing hands-on quick-response support from Mintly’s maintenance service, PunaMusta has seen several clear improvements on the previous architecture.
Setting up a new office is quick and easy
PunaMusta Media now has several offices in Finland and Estonia. Mintly’s automated deployment has meant low-cost installation and keeping on schedule.
Maintenance and repair work reduced
Reduced maintenance needs now means that resources can be focused on other tasks, such as architecture development.
“The general feeling is that ‘everything just seems to work’. Feedback from users has been positive. For example, the network is scalable and can be easily adapted to changing environments”.
Atso Norppa
PunaMusta Media Oyj
Modern architecture brings many benefits
In addition to meeting the main objectives, the architecture provided by Mintly is helping PunaMusta Media in several areas of its business:
- AI automatically monitors the architecture, looking for problems and failures in real time.
- Fault clearance is fast and straightforward
- Software applicable for entirety of the hardware base is easily maintained
- ISO auditing makes it easy to demonstrate GDPR compliance
- Data security is rock solid
- User and administrator rights are clear and easy to manage
Scope and results of the project
80 base stations
80 switches
18 sites
The end result is a solution that uses modern AI to facilitate network operations and troubleshoot. The new architecture scales cost-effectively and operates reliably without high maintenance costs. Mintly will continue to develop PunaMusta’s architecture further and provide support services in partnership with Juniper’s hardware support.
Network management is now very straightforward and easy. Our helpdesk has fewer tickets to deal with, and all our staff are basically happy with this new simpler network solution. It has become much easier to solve potential problems with the help of Marvis AI in Juniper’s Mist. With Marvis, we’ve been able to proactively solve many problems.
Atso Norppa
PunaMusta Media Oyj
